THE Show Newport 2012 Hot Product
New from Chord are the Red Reference Mk III
CD player (top shelf of rack, $25,000) and SPM 1200 Mk II stereo amplifier (bottom,
$14,000). The former features Chord mainstays such as 176.4kHz upsampling, selectable RAM
buffer clock retiming and selectable filtering. The latter outputs 350Wpc and uses Chord's
sliding-bias class-A/B circuit, whose drive circuitry operates in class A. The chassis for
both are machined from billet aluminum.
Want a window into your music? The
Chord Red Reference Mk III CD player has one, although the view is far from neutral,
bathed as it is by blue LEDs. |